President Bill Clinton: “America Needs to End its ‘Ambivalence’ About Natural Gas”: America needs to end its “ambivalence” about natural gas and more specifically the hydraulic fracturing process used to crack underground rock formations and release the gas inside, he said. “We’re going to take that out of the ground. It’s obviously happening,” he said. (E&E News, 2/29/12)

Mayor Bloomberg Give Shale Gas a “Thumbs Up”: New York Mayor Michael “Bloomberg gave [hydraulic fracturing] a thumbs up.” … “We have to get that gas out of the ground,” Bloomberg said. … “With appropriate safeguards, I think fracking is something that on balance is better for this,” the mayor said. (NY Daily News, 2/29/12)